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Category Archive: Databases

ARTstor, a digital image collection available to UWGB from the Cofrin Library website, has added over 700 high quality images from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

Covering contemporary and modern art, these images include drawings, watercolors, paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures, and installations by artists such as Paul Cezanne, Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, and Vincent Van Gogh.

April 15, 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. After departing on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England on April 10, 1912, she struck an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean off of Newfoundland on the night of April 14. The ship sunk a couple of hours later on April 15. Over 1,500 people perished in the sinking.

You can follow news reports and first-hand accounts of the Titanic by searching Cofrin Library’s Historical New York Times (Proquest) database. It provides full coverage of the New York Times from the 1850s to the 2000s. When searching for a historical event, go to the “Advanced Search” link on the database homepage, type in the keywords to the event you are looking for, and select the appropriate date range. If you need help, Ask-a-Librarian.

UPDATE: as of 10pm on March 27, 2012, the EBSCO databases are working again.

The library’s EBSCO databases (e.g., Academic Search Complete, PsycINFO, CINAHL, America: History & Life, and many others) are down due to server issues at EBSCO. This is affecting libraries nationwide. In the meantime, try these alternatives:

The popular database, JSTOR, has made their journal content published before 1923 for U.S. publications and 1870 for foreign publications freely available. The journals have a broad range of topic coverage including arts and humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and other sciences. Check out the Early Journal Content FAQ to learn more.

Early Journal Content is available as part of any regular JSTOR search, you can access JSTOR from the Databases A to Z page or you can browse a list of available content by discipline or by title.

Need help using JSTOR? Contact the research desk. And remember, the Cofrin Library is your guide to answers!

If you search Google Scholar from campus– the “scholarly” subset of Google, with journal article citations & book citations–you will often see the Find It at UW-Green Bay link next to many of the citations:

This link directs you to Cofrin Library content in our databases–most often in the form of online access to journal articles. This is helpful because the library has paid for this content for you. Otherwise, you will often be directed to publishers’ websites for payment.

Off-Campus Access
But when you search Google Scholar from off-campus, you don’t automatically get links to Cofrin Library content. However, you can set your preferences to include the Find it @ UW-Green Bay link. This gives you access to content from the library. It’s fast and easy to do: